"Brian Sandle" wrote in message
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Brian Sandle wrote:
Gordon Couger wrote:

In my case they reduced my costs for cotton production as a land
lord 50% and the farmers 15%, reduced the chance of wind and water
erosion and let the soil build organic matter at the rate of 1% a
year. www.couger.com/farm

Temporarily Down (for how long?)

Oh sorry, I did wrong spelling.


shows the different in notil cotton and
conventional till. In this case the notil is my neighbors


What are the other plants in the no-till? Roundup-resistant?

And the plants look a bit more curly than yours, though it's hard to
see.
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Those are weeds the cotton is real hard to see.

and
conventional till is mine on an alfalfa hay meadow that is coming
out of hay and into cotton.


What sort of cotton? GM?

No it is conventional with resistatce to another heribcide that can be use
all season long.


Goodness, tremendous expanse with no wind break. Sun nearly directly
overhead.
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If it doesn't rain soon it the sun will cook it. It hasn't raned in 5 weeks
and it 110f every day.

That's nothing you shoud see the stuff in west Texas. Wind breaks use
moisture and with mositure the limiting factor you can't have trees close
enough togeter to do any good. The only place any one put them was where a
neighbor let their land blow on them.

We lost all the cotton there to a thunder sorm that beat 2 week old cotton
in the ground. We have poverty peas (soybeans) on it now.

the other 3/4 of the farm is no till.

What you are calling `no-till' is killing weeds with Roundup on
Roundup-Ready GM crops.

Half will go in to alfalfa in the fall and the weeds will be controlled with
round up and other chemical all summer. I don't know what he plans to do
with the other half.

Gordon